Chimacum’s Farm to School program includes school garden programs, local sourcing and scratch cooking by School Food Services, and High School Career and Technical Education (CTE) related to food and farm economy.
Chimacum’s food and farm CTE programming is structured around Food Education and Enterprise Development (FEED). Horticulture and Culinary Arts classes experience a year-long FEED Lecture Series featuring monthly panels with local experts on farming, food production and value-added food enterprises.
Garden Coordinators:
Katie Jagger (Contact email - Katie_Jagger@csd49.org
GARDEN
Horticulture CTE Class: Instructor: Gary Coyan (Contact: Gary_Coyan@csd49.org).
Students learn basic horticulture and agriculture skills with these program elements:
- Teaching garden
- All-season greenhouse
- Vegetables
- Open-pollinated seed crops
- Perennials
- Orchard
- Berries
- Honeybees
- Specialty Gardens – Culinary and medicinal herbs, native
CULINARY ARTS Culinary Arts CTE Class: Instructor: Gary Coyan (Contact: Gary_Coyan@csd49.org)
Students learn food preparation for home and career applications with these program elements:. Food Handler cards through Jefferson County Health Department. Basic food preparation skills and kitchen best practices. Collaboration with the Food Services Director to prepare and test new recipes for inclusion in school menus. Development and preparation of dried culinary herb blends. Food Truck school-based enterprise coming soon
FOOD SERVICES PROGRAM
School Meals Food Services Director: Justin Oas
- Fresh whole foods
- Salad Bar
- Weekly scratch-cooked meals
Funding Sources
- Community Wellness Project
- Grants from: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), Port Ludlow Garden Club, Tri Area Garden Club, EJ Rotary, Chimacum Arts & Crafts Fair, UGN
- Public donations
Would you like to help the program? Go here. https://jccwp.org/take-action
360-302-5900 Office
91 W Valley Rd, Chimacum, WA 98325
